Medieval Germany - An Encyclopedia

Editor Jeep is an assistant professor in the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages at Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, and he is joined by more than 200 contributors, most from U.S. colleges and universities but some from institutions of higher learning in Europe. Nearly 650 alphabetically arranged entries cover German- and Dutch-speaking Europe from A.D. 500 to 1500. Articles cover "major persons, places, historical occurrences, artistic and technological accomplishments, intellectual developments, and daily life." Among the topics covered are Carmina Burana, Gardens and gardening, Hanseatic League, Heraldry, Jews, Meistersinger, Pregnancy and childbirth, and Printing press. There are also entries for persons, from Adam of Bremen, regarded as one of the finest historians of the early Middle Ages, to fifteenth-century painter Barthololmaus Zeitblom; and places, from the Carolingian capital Aachen to the Cistercian monastery Zwettl.